A day of solemn ceremony, shadowed by a resurgence of nationalism in Germany and several other European countries, began early Monday near a former gas chamber and crematory in the Polish town of Oswiecim, whose name was Germanized to Auschwitz during Hitler’s 1939-1945 occupation of Poland. (Higgins, The New York Times)
Read MoreMembers of Gen Z in their teens and twenties are much less likely to identify as atheists than their middle-aged parents in Generation X or their Baby Boomer grandparents, a study has found. (Burgess, The Times)
Read MoreU.S. churches — once deemed off-limits to immigration authorities due to their "sensitive" status within communities — now face the prospect of federal agents arresting migrants within their walls, under a new Trump administration policy. (Chapell, NPR)
Read MoreThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter schools from receiving public funding, agreeing to hear arguments in an appeal out of Oklahoma involving the first such school in the nation. (Fritze, CNN)
Read MoreForty-four percent of Americans say they are “very satisfied” with the way things are going in their personal life, the lowest by two percentage points in Gallup’s trend dating back to 2001. This also marks the continuation of a decline in personal satisfaction since January 2020, when the measure peaked at 65%. (Brenan, Gallup)
Read MoreOne in nine young Germans is unaware of the Holocaust and a quarter cannot name a single concentration camp, death camp or ghetto, according to a survey. The study in eight countries also found that nearly half of American adults could not identify any killing sites of the Holocaust. (Moody, The Times)
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